Nick Cave is unavailable for the 2017 Newstead Short Story Tattoo. In a statement released by Nick Cave’s UK representative Suzi Goodrich from ACT Management, Suzi implied that Nick would love to be involved in the Newstead Short Story Tattoo yet stated “unfortunately Nick will be unable to be involved in the Newstead Short Story Tattoo”. Suzi went on to say “Thanks for thinking of him” and it wasn’t “a money thing” but Nick receives “many such invitations” and he can’t be involved in everything. Suzi finished the communique by stating that “I hope the event goes well”. As disappointed as we are with this, we still love St Nick, and hope he can come to Newstead with piano and poems in 2019